Clitics in phonology, morphology and syntax /

This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals...

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Other Authors: Gerlach, Birgit, Grijzenhout, Janet
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2000
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 36.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Clitics from different perspectives / Birgit Gerlach & Janet Grijzenhout
  • The tonal phonology of Yoruba clitics / Akinbiyi Akinlabi & Mark Liberman
  • Adjective-clitic combinations in the Greek DP / Artemis Alexiadou & Melita Stavrou
  • Free clitics and bound affixes : towards a unitary analysis / Gloria Cocchi
  • Clitics and coordination in linear structure / Berthold Crysmann
  • The acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan / Linda Escobar & Anna Gavarró
  • The prosodic representation of clitics in Irish / Antony Dubach Green
  • Positioning Romanian verbal clitics at PF : an optimality-theoretic analysis / Géraldine Legendre
  • Clitic placement in the Romanian verbal complex / Paola Monachesi
  • Romanian definite articles are not clitics / Albert Ortmann & Alexandra Popescu
  • Metrical constraints on the pronunciation of clitics in the Srpske narodne pjesme / Donald F. Reindl & Steven Franks
  • Verbal clitics in Bulgarian : a paradigm functon approach / Andrew Spencer
  • Operator clitics / Olga Mišeska Tomić
  • Doubling and possession / Juan Uriagereka.